Some months ago I wanted the solution to overriding a Views Field template entirely from within a module. I spent hours trawling documentation and issues, and playing with a little trial and error. In the end, I came up with a solution:
Do you like the large gray “Add Blog entry” button when you first visit your blog space, and have yet to create anything? Creating views with similar buttons (or adding more) is really easy!
The key is to create Empty text in your view using the Full HTML Input Format. Then, drop some HTML in like this to make use of Atrium’s built-in theming.
Bio in Brief: I spend a lot of time thinking about how to build collaboration tools in Drupal. Before that I noodled about with Java looking at long-term data preservation and geospatial data discovery.